Do You Feel Fat And Ugly?

OMG Pogs!

Pump Shoes

Welcome to the club. There are an
estimated 2 billion people feeling fat and ugly at any given time on
the planet (estimate may be conservative). Most of these people are
perfectly pleasant looking and nowhere near unhealthy in their
weight. Many of these people are children, struggling to understand
where they fit in in the world.

Our consumer culture has brought us a
great many awesome things. Pogs, for instance, remember them? You
could stack them, and then you could throw them at each other. Like
sticks and rocks, but 1000% more expensive.

(Watch the little video if you still
need some clarification here.)

It also brought us those shoes you
could pump up with air. Shoes so cool, only the coolest kids had
them. Shoes that didn't just cover your feet and protect you from
jagged class, they actually defined who you were. How many shoes can
claim to do that, huh?

Unfortunately, the downside of rampant
consumerism is that in order to drive you to buy crap you really
don't need, advertisers need to make you feel bad about yourself
first. If you're reading this and you're under, say, 40, you were
born into a world which pumped media at you from the time you first
gurgled at the shiny colorful pictures on the tv box that told you
who and what you are is not enough.

To do this, they parade images of
models doing impossibly cool things in front of you. If only you were
20 pounds lighter and purchased the 'Snuff n Steak', then you'd be
able to defeat an entire Russian ninja basketball team too.

The irony of the situation is that we
have now reached levels of such incredible unattainability in
advertising, that actual supermodels aren't good enough to be used in
advertising without being airbrushed and digitally adjusted to make
them look prettier. That's right. The woman you feel bad about not
because you're not as good looking as her isn't even hot enough to
play herself on TV.

Want proof? Watch this...

Don't waste another day feeling ugly or
inferior. Don't waste another day worrying about how you look. You
have one life, and if you're lucky, the functional extent of that
life is about 70 years. Marketers and advertisers are doing nothing
but trying to turn you from a living, thinking, independent being
into a consumer slave, buying buying buying to fill the void they
themselves created within you until the day you go loopy and start
hitting on the furniture.

You're not fat. You're not ugly. Save your money and go live your life.

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